1619 Slavery

ON AN ICY late evening in Boston, on March 5th 1770, an angry mob advanced on a dozen redcoats standing outside the city’s customs building. Ignoring the pleas of the British officer present, Captain Thomas Preston, the Bostonians hurled razor-edged oyster shells and blocks of wood and ice in the…

The New York Times’ 1619 Project argues that the United States is inextricably rooted in the evil of slavery, brought to these shores in 1619. As a black scholar, I reject this narrative. Instead of 1619, I take pride in our true Founding — 1776. And I’m not alone. Some…

Nikole Hannah-JonesPhoto: Evgenia Eliseeva by Shona Simkin What if the year 1619 was considered as important to American history as 1776? In August of 1619, a ship docked in the British colony of Virginia. It was carrying 20-30 enslaved Africans who were sold to colonists. “If we were to imagine…

The New York Times’ 1619 Project has aimed at nothing less than a revolutionary re-interpretation of the entirety of US history, “re-centering” ­African-Americans as the sole banner-carriers of America’s principles, even as they have been ruthlessly smashed down, enslaved and obliterated from memory by more numerous and more powerful whites.…

“An informed citizenry is the bulwark of our democracy.” The words, ­attributed to Thomas Jefferson, raise an important question: What are the consequences to our democracy of a misinformed citizenry? That is the question we parents of school-age children must ask about The New York Times’ 1619 Project. Its overall…

Skip to comments. Misplaced Blame: Using 1619 For Propaganda in 2020 Townhall.com ^ | March 1, 2020 | Marvin Olasky Posted on 03/01/2020 6:22:40 AM PST by Kaslin This year's Oscar festivities included a commercial for the biggest historical gambit of the past year, the “1619 Project” of The New…

by Greg Mayer We’ve noted here several times at WEIT the New York Times‘ “1619 Project”, a racialist program to rewrite American history. The notices have been largely critical, and we’ve pointed out that much of the criticism has come from the World Socialist Website (WSWS), an organ of the…

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Since the New York Times introduced its 1619 Project last summer, the paper has touched off a series of debates about the role of slavery in American history. Although the exchanges that followed haven’t revealed much about our nation’s past, they have told us a lot about state of modern…

The United States of America began in 1776, not 1619. That one sentence is the thesis statement of 1776—a non-partisan black-led response to the New York Times's 1619 Project initiative, which launched last week at D.C.'s National Press Club. I am pleased and proud to be a part of 1776,…